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David. The best thing about marriage is David (When asked what is the best thing about marriage to David Duchovny).

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

I love tennis. I love very aggressive tennis, and I think I`m quite good. Golf, well, of course you can drink beer when you play that, but I take it pretty seriously, and I`m quite good at that. And I`m a good swimmer, and I used to compete in windsurfing (on the challenge of playing an athlete in Spanglish (2004)).

I have always loathed working out.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

Acting doesn`t feel good. It`s not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it`s not.

I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn`t like about this community.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

I`m not a huge fan of my work.

Well, I don`t find glamour and clothing relevant.

Not to sound like a whore, but I`ve been with...I`ve worked with...some very attractive men. Nicolas Cage...Al Pacino...Ben Stiller...and Woody Allen.

It`s kind of fun to be sexy.

At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.

I don`t mean to be presumptuous that men don`t feel this, I don`t mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I`ve been in a gym probably nine days of my life.

I`ve looked at my roster and I`m ready to hold it up against Nicole Kidman. I mean, I got everybody she`s got except for Tom and a few others.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

I don`t do T&A very well because I haven`t got much of either.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It`s not 1973.

Shopping turns me off.

I`m not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

The inner conflict is what makes the spin so much fun, what makes it more colorful. I actually can`t imagine playing someone who wasn`t neurotic.

People don`t know this, but early in your career, you don`t just glide on to The Tonight Show.

I don`t think, there`s no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven`t found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

Yes, I think motherhood has almost everything to do with it, but when I was pregnant with my daughter, I thought I`ll never work again.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don`t want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn`t want to be that weak link.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn`t as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

I just mean it`s very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn`t get across or I thought I was making one point.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It`s the worst review of your life and it`s really relieving to find out that they don`t know what they`re saying.

Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I`m just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

But I`ve never looked at myself as being particularly funny.